Question

You volunteer at an animal shelter on the weekends and today is adoption day! At the beginning of the event, you start with 44 cats/kittens. x number of cats/kittens get adopted. But then, at the end of the day, someone drops off twice as many new cats/kittens as were adopted. You now have 50 cats/kittens. Write an equation to help determine how many cats/kittens were adopted.

Answer 1

The equation 44 - x + 2x = 50 can be used to determine the number of cats/kittens adopted.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given,

Number of cats/kittens at the event = 44

Number of cats/kittens at the end of event = 50

Let,

x be the number of cats/kittens adopted

Therefore;

Number of cats/kittens returned = 2x

Number of cats/kittens at the event - adopted + returned = Number at the end of event

44 - x + 2x = 50

The equation 44 - x + 2x = 50 can be used to determine the number of cats/kittens adopted.

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